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Joyce Appleby Biography

Joyce Appleby has taught early American history at UCLA since 1981, having begun her career as a historian at San Diego State University in 1967. Writing on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England and France in addition to early America, she has had an abiding interest in how changing economic systems prompted new ways of thinking about human nature and social action.

Without resolution: the Jeffersonian tension in American nationalism: an inaugural lecture delivered before the University of Oxford on 25 April 1991, by Joyce Oldham Appleby. Oxford [England]: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.

Liberalism and republicanism in the historical imagination, by Joyce Appleby. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1992.